Name: 雅典娜號的沉沒｜二戰時期的海底地獄 (The Sinking of the SS Athenia | WW2 Hell Under the Sea)
Uploaded: 2020-11-23T18:16:22.000Z
Duration: 5 min 17 s

NARRATOR: As the opening day of the Second World War fades,

旁白：隨著第二次世界大戰開幕日的消逝。

Lemp strains to identify the ship in front of him.

CHRISTIAN JENTZSCH: It's behaving, in his opinion,

CHRISTIAN JENTZSCH：在他看來，這就是行為。

like an auxiliary cruiser because it's zig-zagging

就像一艘輔助巡洋艦，因為它是曲折的。

And he even imagines to have seen gun platforms.

NARRATOR: In Lemp's mind, that is enough proof

在林普看來，這已經是足夠的證據了。

this is some kind of armed enemy ship fair game

敵船是一種武裝敵船，是一種公平的遊戲

fires the first to U-boat torpedoes of World War II.

發射了二戰中第一枚U型潛艇魚雷。

A hydrophone operator monitors them by the sound

一個水聽器操作員通過聲音監測它們

It should grow fainter but instead is getting louder.

應該越來越淡，反而越來越大。

Fearing that it will circle back and strike them,

It is a scenario they train for, even in peacetime.

這是他們訓練的場景，即使在和平時期也是如此。

The standard procedure is to dive below the depth

And as the bow angles down, the stern goes up.

而當船頭向下傾斜時，船尾就會上升。

They must get the whole U-boat out of danger.

They have no way to visually monitor the threat.

他們沒有辦法直觀地監控威脅。

Their only source of information is what the hydrophone operator

他們唯一的資訊來源是水聽器運營商的資訊。

蘭普鬆了口氣，浮出水面去調查。

With darkness falling, he moves in for a closer look.

隨著天色漸漸暗了下來，他走近一看。

但當蘭普觀察這艘殘缺不全的船時，

They check the silhouette of the large ship against the Lloyd's

他們對照著勞埃德船級社的大船輪廓，檢查了一下

It was a steamer with a lot of civilians in the water.

那是一艘蒸汽船，水裡有很多平民。

NARRATOR: An intercepted radio transmission

一個被截獲的無線電傳輸信號。

It identifies the ship as the passenger liner

Sink only warships, troop ships, and enemy merchant vessels.

只擊沉戰艦、兵船和敵方商船。

And so they don't want to aggravate the British more

所以他們不想讓英國人更難受了

NARRATOR: Now, on the very first day of the war,

Lemp has sunk a passenger vessel without warning.

蘭普公司在沒有警告的情況下擊沉了一艘客輪。

Comparisons are immediately made to the sinking of RMS Lusitania

人們立即將其與 "盧西塔尼亞 "號沉沒事件進行比較。

by a U-boat in World War I, an act that helped end American

在第一次世界大戰中被一艘U型潛艇擊中，這一行為幫助美國結束了

neutrality and brought the United States into the war

Now the sinking of Athenia sets off a new political firestorm.

現在，雅典娜的沉沒掀起了新的政治風暴。

are Canadians, Americans, or European refugees

Hitler and his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels,

希特勒和他的宣傳部長約瑟夫-戈培爾。

vehemently deny German responsibility for the attack.

堅決否認德國對這次襲擊負責。

The man responsible for Hitler's headache

is 26-year-old [inaudible] Fritz-Julius Lemp.

CHRISTIAN JENTZSCH：他是作為一個兒子出生的。

of an army officer in China before the First World War.

He entered the [inaudible] Marina in 1931.

And he went to the new created submarine arm in 1936.

而他在1936年去了新成立的潛艇部門。

Lemp recognizes the potential fallout from his error.

林普認識到自己的錯誤可能帶來的後果。

他沒有在廣播中報告沉船的情況

And he decides to stick exactly to the submarine protocol

而他決定完全按照潛艇協議行事

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